Abstract:
Voltage applied to the grill of a focus-grill, color cathode ray tube is modulated at vertical scanning frequency. When scanning along the top and bottom edge portions of the grill, potential applied to the intermediate portion of the grill is increased, thereby correcting for overfocus in the vicinity of the vertical axis by narrowing the width of the focused electron beam on the screen. This avoids color impurity at the top and bottom regions of the screen. When scanning along the region of the horizontal axis, potential applied to the intermediate portion of the grill is decreased, thereby correcting for underfocus in the vicinity of the vertical axis by narrowing the width of the focused beam and thus avoiding color impurity in that region. The voltage modulations are progressively proportioned or damped by resistor means in directions outwardly toward the left and right edge portions of the grill, to which constant potential is applied. Damping the applied voltage modulation to a constant potential avoids color impurity at the edge portions, which have very high color purity sensitivity to grill voltage change.